Mountain Home's Satch Harris smashed a one-out, walk-off home run over the center field fence in the bottom of the sixth inning to send the Blue Devils to a 4-3 victory over Petal, Miss., Monday night in the loser's bracket final of the Cal Ripken Baseball 12-year-old Southwest Regional Tournament at Clysta Willett Park.

The homer lifted the Blue Devils to their fourth straight victory of the tournament after falling to Andrews, Texas, on Saturday, and with the win, the tourney hosts are in the championship game at 5:30 p.m. today.

Mountain Home must defeat the Little Rock Junior Deputy Rangers twice in order to win the championship. Little Rock is 3-0 out of the winner's bracket.

"We had told the kids to take the whole tournament one pitch at a time," Blue Devils head coach Tom Jordan said. "This is a great effort by these kids as individuals doing their part and playing as a team. We are all so proud of them."

The teams were tied 3-3 heading into the final inning, with Mountain Home reliever Will Gross walking the lead-off batter — Petal's Michael Windham — in his second inning of relief and sixth inning on the mound for the day. The righty had thrown four innings of relief to earn the victory in Mountain Home's first game of the day, a 6-4 victory over Andrews to avenge the earlier loss.

Petal's Matt Mercer singled, and with one out, Ethan Dyess hit into a fielder's choice where the Blue Devils threw behind the baserunner at third, trying to retire the lead runner. The third base umpire called Windham out, trying to get back to third base, but after a conference between the officials, Windham was called safe, leaving the bases loaded with still one out.

Gross bounced back in a big way, however, striking out back-to-back batters to escape the jam, leaving the score tied.

Petal pitcher Cade Law — working his sixth inning on the mound — struck out Gross to start the inning, but Harris jumped on a pitch up in the zone and sent the ball over the fence just to the right of dead-center field to end the game.

"We had moved Satch down in the order," Jordan said. "He had been batting third. (Clean-up batter) Will Gross had been getting on base a lot, and Satch was seeing the ball really well. So, we put Satch behind him in the lineup, and it turned out to be a really good guess."

Gross earned his second win of the day and third of the tournament, striking out three and allowing three hits over two innings. Trey Jordan allowed four hits and three runs — two earned — while striking out two in four innings in the start.

Law's only earned run came on the home run by Harris. Law whiffed four and allowed five hits over 5 1/3 innings.

Harris went 2 for 3 for the second game in a row Monday, while Payton Rehm went 2 for 3 to lead Petal at the plate.

Petal scored the game's first run in the first inning when Cade Law reached on an error and scored on a single by Rehm. Mountain Home answered with one in the bottom of the first as Asa Smith walked, took second on a passed ball and scored on a throwing error.

Petal went up 2-1 in the fourth when Rehm reached on a fielder's choice and scored a run, but the Blue Devils responded in the bottom half with Gross and Harris each hitting singles and scoring runs. Jordan and Josh Prinner also had base hits in the inning as Mountain Home took a 3-2 lead.

Petal tied the score at 3-3 in the fifth, as a two-out walk led to a run. Joshua Cary drew a walk from Gross, Logan Walters doubled, and Cary came home on an infield hit by Rehm for the first baseman's second RBI of the game.